Friday, June 6, 2008

This post has been percolating in my head all week. I honestly could not wait for today to come to roll it out. Then, my very good friend and blogger buddy had a spectacularly craptacular week, and it is as if the heavens sanctioned my new version of a bitchfest.

Fridays will present the opportunity to tell someone to Fuck Off!! I may not do it every week, but you are welcome to join in by commenting. If you want to post on your own site just link back here because I'd love to read it.

After everything that has gone on this week I cannot even remember my original reason for wanting to create this post. So:

A huge FUCK OFF to trolls who come to websites and leave nasty comments for the sole purpose of hurting someone's feelings. You are mean-spirited. You are hateful. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Love it! Yes, fuck off you mean-spirited trolls! I just had my first incident with that, being new to the blog world, and I've been walking around crushed for a week. It's plain not nice. Didn't your mammas teach you any better than that?

Contributors

Limning

There is a lot of stupidity in this world, and I have about had enough. I have a lot to say and in all fairness to those who know and love me, I am putting it all right here. I have another blog that is just for my regular family and friends. Pictures of the kids, sweet little paragraphs detailing their activities and the like. THIS blog is for me. Not my kids, not my parents. This is where we get to the meat of the matter. I am tired of smiling in the face of people and thinking WHAT THE FUCK? I know that I do not think or believe the way many of the sheep out there seem to. This blog proves it.

Gears and Cogs

Our Attempts At A Green Lifestyle:

We try to use cloth napkins or kitchen towels instead of paper towels when we clean up

I switched to a smaller coffee maker. There is less wasted coffee, there is a shorter brew time, and it therefore uses less engergy

We attempt to grow plants

I use a menstrual cup. Safer for me, cleaner for the environment

We get lots of hand-me-down toys and clothes and we pass everything along

We use FreeCycle and shop at thrift shops

I breastfed each child

My husband walks to work when he can

Instead of clay litter, we use cat sand made from wheat. Also from pine. In a happy accident, we found that by combining the two, we get better clumpage, less smell, and do not worry if the kids end up with a little in their mouths

We unplug other appliances like coffee makers, etc.

We have our media on the wall switch and turn it off at night. That makes SEVEN appliances that are turned off--not just on standby